This case is likely the first time in history that a federal court has charged police officers for failing to intervene when witnessing police brutality by another officer.

On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. Floyd’s killing was captured on video by a teenage bystander, Darnella Frazier. What resulted was worldwide attention on police brutality, the general treatment of Black people in the U.S. and a “racial reckoning” that endured conversation and financial pledges of support toward equal rights. […]